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ἰατρός

iatros · ὁ

one who heals, physician

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Where it lives

  • Charmides 17 · 20.47/10k
  • Lovers 4 · 16.73/10k
  • Gorgias 40 · 15.2/10k
  • Laches 9 · 11.73/10k
  • Minos 3 · 10.52/10k
  • Ion 4 · 9.97/10k
  • Protagoras 15 · 8.44/10k
  • De Divinatione per Somnum 1 · 8.34/10k
  • Fragments 3 · 7.53/10k
  • Lysis 5 · 7.19/10k
  • Colossians 1 · 6.46/10k
  • Cleitophon 1 · 6.46/10k

Densest 12 of 73 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

one who heals, physician, surgeon

like ἰατήρ, one who heals, physician or surgeon, Il. 16.28, al., Hdt. 3.130 sq.; ἰητρὸς ἀνήρ Il. 11.514; φὼς ἰ. A. Supp. 261; ἥρως ἰ., worshipped at Athens and elsewhere, D. 19.249, IG 2(2).840, AB 263, etc.; οὐ πρὸς ἰατροῦ σοφοῦ θρηνεῖν ἐπῳδὰς πρὸς τομῶντι πήματι S. Aj. 581; ἰατρῶν παῖδες, for ἰατροί, Luc. Hist.Conscr. 7; as a name of Apollo, Ar. Av. 584 (anap.), Lyc. 1207, IPE 2.6 (Panticapaeum); ἰ. ὀφθαλμῶν, κεφαλῆς, ὀδόντων Hdt. 2.84: as fem., of Artemis, Diog. Trag.1.5; of Aphrodite, Plu. C

II

metaph., εὐφροσύνα πόνων ἰ. Pi. N. 4.2; ὦ θάνατε, . . τῶν ἀνηκέστων κακῶν ἰ. A. Fr. 255; ὁ θάνατος λοῖσθος ἰ. νόσων S. Fr. 698; ὀργῆς νοσούσης εἰσὶν ἰατροὶ λόγοι A. Pr. 380, cf. Ch. 699; [ἀτυχίας] Antipho 2.2.13; τῆς πόλεως <κακῶς> βουλευσαμένης Th. 6.14; λύπης ἰ. χρόνος Diph. 117; τῆς ὕβρεως Ath. 14.627e: Comically, βουλιμίας, of a table, Timocl. 13.3; γῆς ἰ., of a farmer, Secund. Sent. 16. [ῑᾱ Trag., also Antiph. 259, Diph. 88, Men. 497, etc.: ῐα in [Emp.] 157, E. Fr. 1072, Ar. Ec. 363, Pl. 40

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Where it came from

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